All things that God would have us do are hard for us to do–remember that–and hence, he oftener commands us than endeavours to persuade.
HERMAN MELVILLEIs there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?
More Herman Melville Quotes
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
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The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.
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See how elastic our prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
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Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
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Heaven have mercy on us all – Presbyterians and Pagans alike – for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.
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We cannot live for ourselves alone.
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Truth is in things, and not in words.
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I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
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Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magic.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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